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Company Overview of Iris Capital

Company Overview

Iris Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth capital, acquisition, small buyouts, and developmental capital investments. It seeks to invest in seed/startup, early, mid, and late venture stage, middle market, late stage, emerging growth, special situations, and mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in special situations such as public-to-private or secondary transactions. It seeks to invest in product and service companies such as digital economy, digital image, new digital media, digital products, internet (internet projects), and new networks and software technologies, media and entertainment, telecom, communications, electronics, so...

Iris Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth capital, acquisition, small buyouts, and developmental capital investments. It seeks to invest in seed/startup, early, mid, and late venture stage, middle market, late stage, emerging growth, special situations, and mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in special situations such as public-to-private or secondary transactions. It seeks to invest in product and service companies such as digital economy, digital image, new digital media, digital products, internet (internet projects), and new networks and software technologies, media and entertainment, telecom, communications, electronics, social media, particularly for marketing and communication, and information technology applications and services sectors. Within media and entertainment, the firm invests in advertising, TV production and broadcasting, music, video games, cinema, publishing, technical services and solutions, value-added service providers. In communications, it seeks to invest in mobile communication/technologies/services, telecoms, equipment, fixed and wireless operators, equipment, and software. Within information technology, the firm invests in enterprise and infrastructure software, cloud computing, e-commerce platforms, security, IT services and ASPs, and new technologies. It primarily invests in companies based in Europe with a focus on Continental Europe (France, Germany, Benelux, and Switzerland), North America including Quebec, Greater china, GCC countries, Middle East, Levant, Palestinian Authority, United States, Asia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and North Africa. It typically invests between €1 million ($1.28 million) and €8 million ($10.27 million) per round and can invest up to €20 million ($25.67 million) over the life of the company with sales values between €5 million ($6.70 million) and €100 million ($134.08 million). The firm typically acts as a lead or co-lead investor in European investments but can consider different cases depending on investment size and geographic proximity and outside Europe, it prefers to partner with a local fund as a lead investor to facilitate investment and divestment transactions, and on-site monitoring. It seeks to take a board seat in its portfolio companies to participate in strategic decision-making and takes a minority interest in the companies. The firm keeps some reserves to be able to participate in follow-on investment rounds in order to support the company's development. It exits its investments in four to five years. Iris Capital was formerly known as Part'Com Management. Iris Capital was founded in 1986 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices across Asia, North America, and Europe.

Iris Capital Key Developments

Amis Up For Sale

Sep 23 13

Amis d.o.o. is up for sale for around €30 million, reveals local business daily Finance. Amis is owned by KBC Private Equity NV and Iris Capital. According to Director Bostjan Kosak, Amis is up for sale, but it has not yet received any official offer.

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